Mathematics Knowledge and Skills - Office of Head Start
Professional development activities and resources for best practices in math teaching at the early childhood level. Organized into the four sections of Know, See, Do, and Improve, this Toolkit for Teaching includes videos, curriculum guides, staff learning
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Math Fundamentals Problem of the Week - Math Forum
Math problems for students working with concepts of number, operation, and measurement, as well as introductory geometry, data, and probability. The goal is to challenge students with non-routine problems and encourage them to put their solutions into
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Math Fundamentals - Vinay Agarwala
Lessons with diagnostic tests and problem sets, and books by the author, all designed to encourage conceptual understanding of math fundamentals. Lesson topics include numbers and place values, addition and multiplication, subtraction and shortage, division
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Math in the Home - Office of Head Start
Activities excerpted from Helping Your Child Learn Mathematics for parents and teachers to encourage children's enjoyment of math and their curiosity in the world around them: Math in the Home; Fill it Up; Fractured Fractions; Money's Worth; and more.
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Math Kangaroo - Maria Omelanczuk
Math Kangaroo's international "not-selective competition" recognizes all students who participate in its 75 minute-long multiple choice test: "Each participant is seen as a winner and receives recognition and gifts on the test day in March." Open to any
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The Math Less Traveled - Brent Yorgey
A blog "dedicated to exploring beautiful mathematics." Posts, which date back to March, 2006, have included "Proof by animation," "The Nuclear Pennies Game," "Recounting the Rationals," "Predicting Pi," "Square roots with pencil and paper," "Irrationality
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Math | Melody House - Melody House
Educational recordings, counters, sorting trays, toy coins, and other colorful manipulatives from the publishers of Jump into Math by Rae Pica, Moving To Math by Pam Schiller, Math in Minutes by Sharon McDonald, and Math All Around Me and Learning Rocks
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Math Movement - Tim Chartier
Blog that focuses on mathematics and the "progress or movement" that occurs in Chartier's teaching, research, writing, and performing. An Associate Professor of Mathematics at Davidson College, Chartier has trained at Le Centre du Silence mime school
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Math Puzzle of the Week - Ed Pegg, Jr.
A site that celebrates math puzzles and mathematical recreations. Ed Pegg is a twenty-year member of the National Puzzler's League, and frequently contributes to the New York Times crossword, Games magazine, and National Public Radio's Sunday Puzzler.
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Math Reasoning Inventory - Scholastic
An online formative assessment tool for the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) math domains of number and operations. Watch Math Reasoning Inventory (MRI) clips of face-to-face interviews of students as they reason and explain their strategies, demonstrate
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Maths &amp Numeracy Games - Keen2Learn
Increase understanding and build up speed in preparation for tests, SATs, 11+ and GCSE exams with Keen2Learn's maths and numeracy games on adding and counting, algebra, division and multiplication, fractions, numbers, percentage, shape and space, subtraction,
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The Maths Igloo - Ian Lynagh
Contents: Pi (generating Pi and where you can get it on the 'net); Four plus five (it's nine, isn't it. Or is it? - binary, hexadecimal); All about logarithms; About the Mathematical symbol "e".
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MathStar New Mexico - New Mexico State University
A professional development program for math teachers that incorporates the principles of Japanese lesson study. Watch QuickTime video clips of lesson study; download PDFs of research lessons on number and operations, algebra, geometry, measurement, and
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Math Stuff - The Connaissance Museum; ThinkQuest 1996
Tutorials/definitions of math terms and concepts in Arithmetic; Algebra; Geometry; Trigonometry; Calculus; and Helpful Tables and Graphs. Also The Famous Dictionary of Mathematics - math terms for help in doing homework, from abscissa, acute, and additive
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Math Teaching Videos - Colleen King
Macromedia Flash "videos" of problems being solved; students are invited to solve problems themselves following the given example, and then to make up and submit problems of their own. New videos appear each week. The goal of this program is to encourage
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Math - Wonderopolis®
Each Wonder of the Day® includes several paragraphs' overview (Did you know?), modeling suggestions (Try it out!), a vocabulary list (Wonder Words), and other information to stimulate children's curiosity. Share your wonderments, questions, and answers
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MathWonders, LLC - Amy Clark-Wickham
Makers of ClockWise products, which draw on the image of the 12-hour analog clock to conceptually unite the decimal (10), duodecimal (12), and sexagesimal (60) patterns that emerge from nature and everyday experience. Purchase the ClockWise system book,
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Mayan Arithmetic - Steven Fought
A discussion of the importance of the Mayan symbol for zero and a tutorial on adding Mayan numbers by Steven Fought, written when he was a junior at Strath Haven High School in Wallingford, Pennsylvania.
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Mayan Math - Karen M. Strom
The Mayans devised a counting system that was able to represent very large numbers by using only 3 symbols, a dot, a bar, and a symbol for zero, or completion, usually a shell. Charts here show the number cycle, as well as principles of arithmetic.
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Mighty Number
This "search engine for numbers" returns facts about figures, such as its square root, base 10 logarithm, and primality. Mighty Number also writes out quantities in several different languages (English, German, French, Spanish, and Swedish) and represents
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The Million $ Mission - Cynthia Lanius
You have your choice of two payment options on your new job: 1. One cent on the first day, two cents on the second day, and double your salary every day thereafter for the thirty days; or 2. Exactly $1,000,000. (That's one million dollars!) What's the
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Monthly Themes - NRICH Maths, Univ. of Cambridge
Past problems from the NRICH Online Maths Club, archived by month. Each problem has a symbol indicating the stage, which tells you how little or how much mathematics you need to know to solve the problem but is no indication of its difficulty. The five
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More than Magic Squares - Ivars Peterson (MathLand)
Peterson writes about magic squares, quoting Benjamin Franklin's interest in them. In addition to giving a few examples, Peterson also mentions Victor E. Hill IV's musing about whether the discoverer of the magic square actually set out to find an example
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Mr. Vaudrey's Class - Matt Vaudrey
Blog by a secondary educator who "wears costumes, plays loud music, stands on desks, and shows pictures and video — all to make math meaningful for his students." The contents of mathematical posts, which date back to January, 2008, have included
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Music through the Curriculum - Phil Tulga
Developers of math programs such as "Math and Music," which teaches students how to "hear" math (what does a fraction sound like? how about a shape?); and "Math, Science and Sound," an assembly and family night program that connects thunder, volcanoes,
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My Dear Aunt Sally - Ron Larson
The game "My Dear Aunt Sally" reinforces number sense, from single operations on whole numbers to multiple operations on rationals. Features hints; audio in English or Spanish; hundreds of difficulty levels; animations of Aunt Sally and her animal friends;
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